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Please Read This Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor. The purpose of this site is not to diagnose or cure any disease or malady, but is presented as food for thought. What you read on this site is based on my own history and ideas. This information cannot take the place of professional medical advice. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should come under the direction of a physician. No guarantees are made regarding any of the information presented in this website. * Positive serologic testing is NOT necessary for a Lyme disease diagnosis. FDA Medical Bulletin * Summer 1999 *
Final Issue/ Lyme Disease Test Kits: Potential for Misdiagnosis Lyme Disease and False Negative or False Positive Blood
Test Results Lyme Disease Diagnosis - From the CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBI) "Diagnosis: The diagnosis of Lyme disease is based primarily on clinical
findings, and it is often appropriate to treat patients with early disease
solely on the basis of objective signs and a known exposure. Serologic testing
may, however, provide valuable supportive diagnostic information in patients
with endemic exposure and objective clinical findings that suggest later stage
disseminated Lyme disease."
The New Great Imitator: Lyme Disease (LD)
"Health is a state of balance.
Because humans and microbes are often competitors, interactive co-evolution
has resulted in multiple and varied defense mechanisms on the part of both.
The body must juggle and perform delicate balancing acts to maintain adaptive
successes in spite of constantly changing life situations.
Lyme Disease (LD), Fibromyalgia (FMS), Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Gulf War Syndrome (CWS), and many similar chronic
conditions affect multiple body systems often accompanied by extreme
morbidity. Laboratory diagnostic methods presently in use are often
undependable. " visit the site:
Bowen
Research and Training, Tarpon Springs, FL, USA
http://www.bowen.org
To get serologic testing done through one of these most reliable labs listed below, follow these steps: 1.
Talk to your doctor, make arrangements for the doctor’s office to accept a
kit from a laboratory. 2.
Call the laboratory (number below) request a kit for a Lyme panel. 3. When the kit arrives pick it up from the doctor’s office. 4.
Have your doctor fill out the test order form that comes in the kit. a. Lyme Western Blot. IgG, IgM b. Lyme PCR c. Lyme ELISA d. Babesia PCR e. Ehrlichia HGE Western Blot f. Ehrlichia HME Western Blot g. If at all possible, add testing for Bartonella, Tularemia, Mycoplasma, Brucella and Chlamydia 5.
Go to a laboratory (hospital, every hospital has one, or private) have them
draw your blood and spin it down. 6.
Take the kit AND the spun tubes of blood home and call FedEx ( the phone
number, prepaid mailer and packaging are enclosed with your kit) to pick up
your package to deliver it to the out of state lab. RELIABLE
Laboratories for testing (Get your kit from one of these laboratories) IGeneX,
Inc.
The following lab is excellent for laboratory
testing, however, AVOID the "in house" spin on Lyme. Be sure to
include the direction "PLEASE REPORT ALL BANDS, INCLUDING CDC
NON-SPECIFIC BANDS."
Stony Brook
Laboratory for the diagnosis of Lyme disease
University Medical Center
Level 3 Room 701
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-7305
631-444-3824
MDL Medical Diagnostic Laboratories East Gate Business Center 133 Gaither Drive, Suite C MT. Laurel, NJ (877) 269-0090 toll-free http://www.mdlab.com/ Central Florida Research, Inc. is replacing the laboratory operations of Bowen Research and Training Institute, Inc. Bowen Research and Training Institute, Inc. will continue providing Bowen Therapy as a separate and distinct corporation.
Lyme Disease: Testing the Waters;
As anyone who studies Lyme disease knows all too well, the difficulty is often
not how to treat the disease, but how to arrive at the diagnosis. Several
speakers examined the current state of diagnostic testing, highlighting what
is currently available, what may soon be available, and in 1 case, what might
have been available.
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